Re:Fuchsia is not Linux
by rurban on Thursday April 12, 2018 @10:54AM
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Midora, Singularity in an OS.
Pony in a language.
The goal is to avoid blocking, not to offer async also. That's a lost cause.
Fuchsia once had the goal to offer async only, but then some manager decided that he needs some blocking, and then it was gone.
non-blocking only is lower level than blocking. You can always wait indefinitely for that callback, but usually you have a default timeout.
L4 for example offers that API.
The goal is to avoid blocking, not to offer async also. That's a lost cause.
Fuchsia once had the goal to offer async only, but then some manager decided that he needs some blocking, and then it was gone.
non-blocking only is lower level than blocking. You can always wait indefinitely for that callback, but usually you have a default timeout. L4 for example offers that API.